This took me around 14 hours to reach, however, I still had plenty of Accolades to unlock by completing all the activities on offer, and this ultimately goes towards raising my ranking on the leader board. Your character, after competing in England, is now a seasoned racer and gets the opportunity to expand the Horizon Festivals across Mexico by competing in the Horizon Adventure that ultimately leads to you being inducted into the Hall of Fame. Thankfully, Forza Horizon 5 features a variety of equally exciting set-pieces as part of its campaign, through Showcase events, which keeps you captivated and always coming back for the next big adrenaline rush, whether it be racing against a train or battling it out against a couple of monster trucks.Īfter that breath-taking opening, you’re introduced to Forza Horizon 5’s campaign narrative where you get to create your character with the usual options that you come to expect and a variety of different clothes and accessories to choose from, in which more can be purchased and unlocked via the game’s currency or won in the wheel-spin level system, which I will come to later. It was such an epic and cinematic start that showcased the different environments and landscapes the Mexican setting has to offer while also giving you a feel of how each type of car, whether it be a sports car or 4×4 off-road vehicle, handles on the varied terrain. This opening could easily turn any non-racing fans instantly into an avid racer. It’s a stunning car that hits the road hard and fast as you travel up the coastline to reach the Festival celebrations. The montage concludes in another stunning sports car – the 2021 Mercedes-AMG One. The next part of the montage has the plane dropping you off in the heart of the vibrant Mexican jungles in a 1989 “Desert Flyer” Porsche which is perfect for handling the wet and muddy conditions as you drive through rivers and see the gorgeous wildlife on offer while narrowly avoiding hitting a flock of flamingos. The race then switches to the aeroplane dropping you off in the gorgeously sleek 2020 Chevrolet Corvette C8 Stingray Coupe and racing through the countryside before being engulfed in the orange clouds of a dust storm. The race to the Festival montage starts with you in a 2021 Ford Bronco being dropped out of an aeroplane to land on the brim of an active caldera volcano and has you hurtling past lava down the side of the volcano. It is so impactful at showing you exactly what the game has to offer, whilst doing so in the most dramatic and exciting way. I have since gone back and played a few hours of Forza Horizon 4, which I will come to later, as I wanted to be able to give a brief comparison between the games, especially as I was very much interested in checking out how Forza Horizon 4’s UK setting compares to Forza Horizon 5’s Mexico.įorza Horizon 5 has one of, if not the, best opening to a game I’ve ever played. I was going to play Forza Horizon 4 before 5’s release, however, I wanted to come into the series fresh so I could give my thoughts as a newcomer. I’ve never owned an Xbox console until I picked up a Series S earlier this year, so Forza Horizon 5 is my first Forza game. I was a huge Gran Turismo fan, playing all the games on PS1 and PS2, however, by Gran Turismo 4 I found the series to become quite stale and I couldn’t really get into any other racing game series. However, it was a little too ‘arcadey’ for my liking. In fact, the last racing game I’ve played was Burnout Paradise over 10 years ago, and I barely remember playing it that much, though I do remember it being fun with the awesome slow-motion crashes. For hardcore racers and casuals alike, there is so much fun to be had with this game, especially as you can avoid racing altogether and just enjoy driving the roads of Mexico and seeing all this beautiful country has to offer.įrom the offset, I don’t generally play racing games – I used to, but I grew out of the genre over time. Playground Games has created the most enjoyable and exciting open-world racer on the market with Forza Horizon 5! Set in a fictional representation of Mexico, the game’s map is 50% larger than its predecessor and with it comes the most varied and environmentally diverse game in the series.
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The famous Dreadbox filter comes back in the shape of a 2-pole 12db/octave pre-fed resonant low-pass filter, delivering a more edgy and aggressive sound than ordinary filters. The Erebus is an essential tool for sound design and live music performance, with a straightforward interface that allows you to construct your sound with the turn of a few knobs. The AR Amp envelope has also been improved over the original, delivering a snappier sound.īuilding on the success of the original Erebus design, this limited re-issue takes it a step further, offering a warmer and more snappy overall sound. You can shape your sound using the two-pole low-pass pre-fed filter and the ADSR/AR Amp envelope. The Dreadbox Erebus has two powerful oscillators, each with two waveforms and 'Glide' and 'Hard Sync' function settings. Paraphony CV/GATE outputs allows you to turn monophonic devices into Paraphonic, or even combine 2 monosynths into a paraphony orgy.The Dreadbox Erebus Reissue is an exact reproduction of Dreadbox's original all-analogue paraphonic synthesiser, with a few extra upgrades, such as better portability and the capacity to be racked taking up 42hp.MIDI interface: Midi in/through DIN socket, Pitch note/gate on-off, retrigger function (on-board), Mod wheel (patched on-board), Pitch wheel, MIDI Channel select 1-7 or Omni (DIP switch).CV Inputs: Osc1, Osc2, Echo time, VCF, Resonance, LFO rate, LFO depth, CV/Gate.CV Outputs: LFO, Envelope (attenuated), Modulation Wheel (attenuated), Gate, Osc1 pitch (1V/ocv), Osc2 pitch (1V/ocv).14 patches for an astonishing Modular experience.2 x Envelope Generators (1xADSR and 1xAR dedicated to the AMP).2 pole (12dB/ocv) pre-fed resonating VC Low Pass Filter.Poly chain ability: You can connect up to 4 Erebus units in a chain to achieve more than 2 voices paraphony.Full Analog 2-voice Paraphony or Unison sounds, only with Through Hole components.It has a Poly chain ability where you can connect up to 4 Erebus units in a chain to achieve more than 2 voices paraphony. This means you can play (or sequence) two different pitches, but the pitches will go through a shared VCF, VCA, etc. It is a monophonic synth architecture, that allows for independent control of its two oscillators. Will not be used on third-party websites.Įrebus from Dreadbox is a new semi-modular paraphonic analog synth module. The data will not be passed on to third parties and Shop delivers advertising banners on our start and category pages that match When the personalisation function is activated, our online The Trade Desk stores the data anonymously. No personal data is transmitted to The Trade Desk in this process. You can find more details on this in our privacy policy. The information obtained through cookies allows us to compile ad performance statistics and serve retargeting ads on The Trade Desks advertising network. 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Through Google Ads conversion tracking, Google and we are able to track which ads users interact with and which pages they are redirected to after clicking on an ad. When they solve the puzzle, they are invited to take part in an escape room with a $10,000 prize. Six people from varied backgrounds are presented with a puzzle cube: Zoey, a physics student Jason, a wealthy daytrader Ben, a stockboy Mike, a truck driver Amanda, an Iraq War veteran and Danny, an escape room enthusiast. A sequel, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions, was released on July 16, 2021. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the atmosphere and cast, but criticized the familiar plot and its failure to take full advantage of its premise. Filming took place in South Africa in late 2017 through January 2018.Įscape Room was released in the United States on January 4, 2019, by Sony Pictures Entertainment, and grossed over $155 million worldwide. The film stars Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Tyler Labine, Nik Dodani, Jay Ellis, and Yorick van Wageningen, and follows a group of people who are sent to navigate a series of deadly escape rooms.ĭevelopment of the film began in August 2017, then under the title The Maze, and the casting process commenced. The extended cut alludes to who the “Big Bad” will be if any more sequels are developed.Escape Room is a 2019 American psychological horror film directed by Adam Robitel and written by Bragi F. I originally watched the extended cut and have not scene the actual theatrical release (but plan to). When Tournament of Champions was released on Blu-ray and DVD it came with an “Extended Cut” which added a scene in the beginning and changed the ending. The story flows well and the scenes are intense and nerve racking, with a lot of “edge of your seats” moments. The production value is high, with very clever and interesting “rooms” with intriguing clues to help the cast figure out the solutions. Indya Moore as Brianna in the second film was the fantastic Angel in the series Pose. Holland Roden, Rachel Ellis in the second film, was Lydia in MTVs Teen Wolf. Tyler Labine, Mike in the first film was the loveable Dale in Tucker and Dale vs. Deborah Ann Woll who played Amanda in the first film is from True Blood and Daredevil. Taylor is best known as Judy Robinson in the newest Lost in Space series. The performances are all fairly good, with many fan favorite actors in both films. In addition, the film relies more on the performance, story, clever settings, and mind bending puzzles, and less on gore and shock value than many genre films of today. There are a couple of people who get their comeuppance, but, for the most part, you root for all of them to survive and are heartbroken when someone dies. Within this series most of the cast are empathetic and endearing. I like horror movies with a twist and a mystery to solve while also giving us at least one likeable hero. But where are these clues leading? Who is Sonya? And what does she have to do with this year’s game? Can Zoey and Ben survive again? Watch and find out. And so, a new set of rooms with brain twister puzzles begins. Zoey finds coordinates to the Minos Corporations headquarters in New York, but once they arrive, they are soon trapped on a subway train and learn that the other passengers are all “Winners” of previous Escape Rooms. Which brings us to the sequel, Escape Room: Tournament of Champions. The two leads, Ben (Logan Miller) and Zoey (Taylor Russell) make it out alive but believe that the only way they can ever really be free is to find and expose the Minos Corporation who are people who are behind it. In the original movie, the theme was “Survivors of Various Disasters”. It turns out that each year the wealthy bet on who will survive the Escape Room, which is run by the “Gamemaster” and created by the “Puzzle Maker” and each set of participants has a theme. Each location is more diabolical than the last with clues on how to solve each location’s puzzles, but one by one the players fall prey to the lethal aspects of the game. Exactly three years ago to the day (January 4 th 2019), the first Escape room premiered, with an interesting premise: A group of strangers are brought together and discover they must solve a series of puzzles in order to escape with their lives and move on to the next room. Offical Release: 100 players, new map Fallujah, new faction Middle Eastern Alliance, new game mode Track Attack and much more. Small hotfix: fixed server browser issue of server browser list being empty. Small hotfix: fixed modding issue - allows connecting to modded servers again. Minor patch: fixes an issue with the server browser. Major update: new map Goose Bay, new weapons and vehicles, many gameplay changes and optimizations Small hotfix: various fixes, added initial experimental joystick support for helicopters. Small update: added new replay functionality, various fixes and optimzations. Small hotfix: Preventing misuse of the new replay functionality by disabling client-side demo recording on servers by default. Small update: Reintroduced dead-dead and fixed major bugs. Small hotfix: various fixes see also this post Small update: Updates to the vehicle ammo rack components mechanic, various gameplay changes, new map layers and many bug fixes. Update: new map Anvil, saveable keybinds, many changes & updates, and many bugfixes. Update: overhaul of Squad’s visuals, gameplay improvements, map overhauls and bugfixes. Small update: adjustments to construction point cost of some deployables, many bugfixes to game and maps. Major update: new faction Australian Army with new vehicles and weapons, new deployables, improved particle VFX, gameplay adjustments, many bugfixes and adjustments to game and maps. Update: Three new vehicles for Canadian Army, Hell Cannon for Insurgents, renamed CAF layers, and a new Seeding mode. Major Update: new faction United States Marine Corps, new Amphibious Gameplay and Water Interaction, new map Black Coast, new vehicles, many bugfixes and adjustments to game and maps. Update: New layer, Al Basrah Invasion v7 (MEA vs INS) AT mines, deploy screen, and compass UI. Update: New invasion layers for Black Coast and Skorpo, and flooded versions of Narva for amphibious ops ability to push boats and helicopters new Squad HUD. Seven new vehicles, fifteen unique weapons & deployables, and a JH7A rocket strike Commander ability. Major Update: New Faction People’s Liberation Army including mainland China’s land, sea, and air forces. Hotfix: for 4.0 Fixes server and client side crashes relates to EOS, layer updates, and other hotfixes for 4.0. Squad was fully released on September 23, 2020. Sellers and their agents are prohibited from bidding on their own assets. Once a bid is placed it cannot be retracted. Failure to comply with removal terms may result in bidding privileges being disabled. You are responsible for inspecting items prior to purchase.īidders are responsible for knowing and complying with auction terms. When an auction ends, and the winning bidder invoice appears on the bidder’s dashboard, the bidder is obligated to honor their bid(s).Įvery auction item is sold “as is, where is” with no guarantees or warranties. Bidders are strongly encouraged to inspect prior to placing bids. Inspection dates/times are available for every auction. Bidders are responsible for bids placed on their account. Bidders MUST NOT share their password or account information with anyone. 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Maya hieroglyphic analysis requires epigraphers to spend a significant amount of time browsing existing catalogs to identify individual glyphs. In this article, we are interested in the main signs. A typical Maya codex page contains icons, main sign glyph blocks, captions, calendric signs, etc. Only three such books (namely, the Dresden, Madrid, and Paris codices) are known to have survived the Spanish conquest. A special class of Maya texts was written on bark cloths, made from the inner bark of certain trees (the main being the ficus tree), as folding books from the Post-Classic period (AD 1000–1519). Most Maya texts were written during the Classic period (AD 250–900) of the Maya civilization on various media types, including stone monuments, architectural elements, and personal items. The ancient Maya language created uniquely pictorial forms of hieroglyphic writing ( Stone and Zender, 2011). The Maya civilization is one of the major cultural developments in ancient Mesoamerica. Two example application systems, namely, an automatic glyph retrieval framework and an interactive glyph visualization interface are presented. Our aim is to introduce this descriptor to the wider Digital Humanities (DH) community as a shape analysis tool for DH-related applications. We assess a shape descriptor, within the application domain of Maya hieroglyphic analysis. As one of the key visual cues, shape has been used in various image analysis tasks such as handwritten character recognition ( Fischer et al., 2012 Franken and Gemert, 2013) and sketch analysis ( Eitz et al., 2012). Technological advances in digitization, automatic image analysis, and information management are enabling the possibility to analyze, organize, and visualize large cultural datasets. The positive evaluation results and feedback further hint the practical value of the HOOSC descriptor. Evaluation results and feedback from both groups show that our tool provides intuitive access to explore and discover the Maya hieroglyphic writing, and could potentially facilitate epigraphy work. To evaluate our tool, we designed evaluation tasks and questionnaires for two separate user groups, namely, a general public user group and an epigrapher scholar group. The HOOSC descriptor is used to represent glyph shape, based on which pairwise glyph similarity scores are computed. Each node in the graph represents a glyph image the width of an edge indicates the visual similarity between the two according glyphs. Specifically, a force-directed graph prototype is applied to visualize Maya glyphs based on their visual similarity. Additionally, we developed a graph-based glyph visualization interface to facilitate efficient exploration and analysis of hieroglyphs. Different HOOSC parameters are tested in an automatic ancient Maya hieroglyph retrieval system with two different settings, namely, when shape alone is considered and when glyph co-occurrence information is incorporated. We discuss key issues for practitioners and study the effect that certain parameters have on the performance of the descriptor. We introduce the Histogram of Orientation Shape Context (HOOSC) shape descriptor to the Digital Humanities community. Automatic Maya glyph analysis provides an efficient way to assist scholars’ daily work. |
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